Society (Vocab)

• Citizen Science = Lots of people to help with a scientific project, like asking everyone around the world to count the butterflies they see one day
• Creative Commons = An alternative to copyright that allows people to declare how they want their artistic creations to be shared, remixed, used in noncommercial contexts, and how the policy should propagate with remixed versions
• Crowdsourcing = Asking lots of users online to help with something, like funding a project, or running SETI@Home to help look for extraterrestrial signals
• Digital divide = The idea that some communities / populations have less access to computing than others
• Innovation = A novel or improved idea, device, product, etc. or the development thereof
• Intellectual property = Refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce.
• Open Access = A policy that allows people to have read access to things, (e.g., libraries or online data)